Club of Bombay DISTRICT 3141 GATEWAY BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY Celebrating 90 Years of Service Volume No. 60 | Issue No. 35 | MARCH 19, 2019

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IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION >> #celebrating90amazingyears < SERVICE ABOVE SELF: Mahatma Gandhi’s message to Rotarians today > page 2 < THE RIGHTS OF MAN: H.G. Wells shows the way ahead > page 3 < CELEBRATING TOGETHER: Introducing the guests of the Rotary Club of Bombay > pages 4 & 5 < WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT? Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai says we must find the answer > pages 6 & 7 For private circulation onlyFor | www.rotaryclubofbombay.org private circulation BACK TO THE FUTURE A DECADE FROM strong parallels between his MY SEVEN POINTS FOR NOW, WHEN THE principles and those that A NEW WORLD ORDER guide the Rotarian way of life. ROTARY CLUB OF By M.K. Gandhi BOMBAY TURNS As for what one should inspire to, what those of us HUNDRED, WE WILL who have, should do for LOOK BACK AND those who don’t have – it SEE HOW WE HAVE is worth elucidating the SERVED THOSE IN rights of man. The Gateway extracts an essay from The NEED. This will not be to Rotarian dated September rest on our laurels but to 1941 written by historian and gauge the work done and to novelist H.G. Wells, whose evaluate what remains to be wealth of imagination gave us done. the dystopian alien novel The These are uncertain times. War of the Worlds. And whose Political ambiguities, immense well of empathy changing social and cultural and deep compassion for orders, an ever-accelerating human kind gave us a pace of life, and the widening Declaration of Basic Rights. February 1942 gap between the haves and ON THIS, OUR 90TH the have-nots: all of these in 1. Equal Distribution the context of a burgeoning, ANNIVERSARY, WE The real implication of equal capitalistic mindset – towards RENEW OUR VOWS, distribution is that each man which star will the average OUR PROMISE TO shall have the wherewithal to Rotarian point his moral supply all his natural needs compass? ROTARY’S SUPREME PRINCIPLE: SERVICE and no more. For example, if This special issue of The ABOVE SELF. one man has a weak digestion Gateway celebrates RCB’s 90th and requires only a quarter of year by drawing inspiration a pound of flour for his bread from the greats. Few and another needs a pound, exemplify the spirit of ‘Service both should be in a position Above Self’, the Rotary to satisfy their wants. motto, better than Mahatma We may not, perhaps, be Gandhi. Since its publication, able to realise this goal, but many have disagreed with we must bear it in mind and his ‘Seven Points for a New work unceasingly to come World Order’, printed in The close to it. Rotarian in February 1942, which we extract here, but 2. Individual Action few can argue that there are It is perfectly possible for

Bombay’s first essay in the intricate matter of “classification” adds up to a comprehensive picture of the dynamics of the flourishing, port city at that time. Nearly every form of activity characteristic of an Anglo-Indian settlement was represented in the list of Charter members: Shipping, wine merchants, the press, architects, railways, oil, photography, travel, big business, news agency, telephone, bus service, Bombay port, educations, music, a Christian youth association, insurance, cars, police and hospital. #celebrating90amazingyears 02 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY BACK TO THE FUTURE an individual to adopt this The rich man will be left in 6. The Law of God BASES FOR A way of life without having to possession of his wealth, of To try to root out religion LASTING PEACE wait for others to do so. And which he will use what he itself from society is a wild- if an individual can observe reasonably requires for his By H.G. Wells goose chase. And were such a certain rule of conduct, personal needs and will act an attempt to succeed, it it follows that a group of as a trustee for the remainder would mean the destruction of individuals can do likewise. to be used for society. In this society. The ultimate definition No one need wait for anyone argument honesty on the part of religion may be said to else in order to adopt a right of the trustee is assumed. be obedience to the law of course. MEN GENERALLY 4. Servant of Society God. God and His law are HESITATE TO MAKE synonymous terms. Therefore As soon as man looks upon God signifies an unchanging A BEGINNING IF himself as a servant of and living law. No one has THEY FEEL THAT THE society, earns for its sake, really found Him. But avatars OBJECTIVE CANNOT BE spends for its benefit, then and prophets have, by their purity enters into his earnings HAD IN ITS ENTIRETY. “tapasya,” given to mankind a and there is ahimsa in his SUCH AN ATTITUDE IS faint glimpse of eternal law. A BAR TO PROGRESS. venture. Moreover, if men’s minds turn toward this way of 7. Non-violent Cooperation 3. The Role of the Wealthy life, there will come about a The rich cannot accumulate peaceful revolution in society At the root of this doctrine of wealth without the September 1941 equal distribution must lie – without bitterness. cooperation of the poor 1. Right to Live that of the trusteeship of the 5. Ahimsa in society. Man has been wealthy for the superfluous conversant with violence Every man is a joint Somehow or other the wealth possessed by them. from the beginning, for he inheritor of all the natural wrong belief has taken For according to the doctrine has inherited this strength resources and of the powers, possession of us that they may not possess a rupee from the animal in his nature. inventions, and possibilities ahimsa is pre-eminently a more than their neighbours. It was only when he rose to accumulated by our weapon for individuals and forerunners. He is entitled, How is this to be brought the state of a man that the its use should therefore be within the measure of these about? Non-violently? knowledge of the strength limited to that sphere. In resources and without Or should the wealthy of ahimsa entered into his fact, this is not the case. distinction of race, colour or be dispossessed of their soul. This knowledge has AHIMSA IS DEFINITELY professed beliefs or opinions, possessions? To do his we grown within him slowly but AN ATTRIBUTE OF to the nourishments, naturally have to resort to surely. If this knowledge were covering, and the medical violence. Violent action SOCIETY. TO CONVINCE to penetrate to and spread care needed to realise his full cannot benefit society. Society PEOPLE OF THIS amongst the poor, they would possibilities of physical and will be poorer, for it will lose become strong and would TRUTH IS AT ONCE mental development from gifts of men who know how learn how to free themselves MY EFFORT AND MY birth to death. All men are to to accumulate wealth. by means of non-violence EXPERIMENT. from the crushing inequalities be deemed absolutely equal Therefore, the non-violent which have brought them to in the law... way is evidently superior. the verge of starvation. Continued on Page 11

Although Rotary in Bombay in 1929 was European in inspiration and in the initiative that created it, a need was felt, within a few weeks of its creation, to include prominent Indian Bombayites. On April 10, the following names were deemed worth of consideration: Sir Cowasjee Jehangir, J.A.D. Naoroji, H.P. Mody, Mirza Ali Mahomed Khan, Rahimtulla Chinoy, Santidas Askaran, Mandlik and Ishwardas Laxmidas. #celebrating90amazingyears

MARCH 19, 2019 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY 03 Dear Friends, OUR GUESTS TODAY Water is life. Ensuring that everyone has water is our duty. Shri C.H. Rajashree Birla is Last week, we inaugurated a UV- Vidyasagar an exemplar in the based, safe drinking water plant Rao took charge area of community at the Malabar Hill Post Office. as Governor of initiatives and rural I’m glad that the Water Resource Maharashtra on development. A role Committee installed this right August 30, 2014. model, Mrs. Birla before the scorching summer. He brings with him spearheads the a vast and varied Aditya Birla Centre On March 13, St. Thomas Hospital experience of public service. for Community Initiatives and Rural and Sree Narayana Institute of Development, the group’s apex body Medical Science inaugurated the A senior leader from Telangana, Shri responsible for development projects. equipment donated by the Rotary Vidyasagar Rao has served as Union Minister Club of Bombay to them during the of State for Home Affairs and subsequently She oversees the group’s social and floods of 2018. Management as Union Minister of State for Commerce welfare driven work across 40 companies. and staff members from both the and Industry in the government led by Shri The runs 18 hospitals entities thanked us profusely for Atal Behari Vajpayee from 1999-2004. and 52 schools; 45,000 students belong to the generous donation. I thank all underprivileged communities. Thousands our donors for their contributions Shri Vidyasagar Rao was elected to the 12th of under-served people receive free towards flood relief. Lok Sabha from Karimnagar constituency in treatment at these hospitals. The footprint Today, March 19, we celebrate the year 1998 for the first time. In 1999, he of the Centre’s work straddles over 5,000 90 glorious years was elected as President of the state unit of villages, reaching out to 7.5 million of the Rotary the BJP. He was re-elected to the 13th Lok people. Club of Bombay. I Sabha in the year 1999. wish my Rotarian Mrs. Birla is the Chairperson of FICCI – brethren a Happy As an MLA, he was successful in piloting Aditya Birla CSR Centre for Excellence, 90th Anniversary. I a private member’s bill in the Andhra Habitat for Humanity () and is on would like to thank our dear Rtn. Pradesh Legislative Assembly that sought the Board of Asia Pacific Committee as Suresh Kotak for his magnanimous stringent punishment for practising bigamy. well as Habitat’s Global Committee. She donation towards the 90th year His padayatra to Ichampalli in the year is the Chairperson of FICCI’s first ever commemorative book that we will 1998, highlighting the need to utilise Expert Committee constituted on CSR. release at the celebratory function. Godavari waters for people of Telangana, She is member on the advisory board led the government to consider the project of “The Research Society for the Care, “Never doubt that a small group seriously. Treatment and Training of Children in of thoughtful, committed people Need of Special Care”, Mumbai, and of can change the world. Indeed. It Vidyasagar Rao obtained his LLB degree BAIF Development Research Foundation, is the only thing that ever has.” – from the Law College of Osmania University Pune. As a patron of arts and culture, she Margaret Mead where he was also elected as the President heads the Sangit Kala Kendra, a centre for of the Students’ Union. He was actively performing arts, as its President. Thank You! associated with the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) for many years. He also Among the many distinctive awards served as President of Jan Sangh and bestowed upon her is the Padma subsequently as President of the Janata Bhushan, given to her by the Government Rtn. Vijay Jatia Party in Karimnagar district. of India in 2011. President

In April 1932, scientists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split the atom for the first time, at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in the UK. The Rotary Club of Bombay meeting of June 1932 had an address on “splitting the atom” showing the newsiness of subjects chosen. A few examples of the variety of topics in those early years: J.R.D. Tata spoke about Air Mail Services in India. There were others who gave gripping talks on The Bombay Mint, Gold and India, Across America by Road, Advantages of Illiteracy and Squeezing One Rupee out of 12 Annas. #celebrating90amazingyears 04 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY OUR GUESTS TODAY PRIP (2011-12) DG Shashikumar Kalyan Banerjee Sharma makes has been marshalling miracles happen. his energies for Born and brought Rotary since 1972, up in Mumbai, DG when he joined the Rtn. Shashikumar fledgling Club in his Sharma was from a hometown of Vapi, family with a textile India. business.

Around the same time, he co-founded His career began via the Tata group. He was United Phosphorous Limited, to produce President of the Printing Industry of India red phosphorous, an essential ingredient and is presently managing a printing and DID YOU KNOW? in fertilizer. Under his leadership, the export house. He is also Chairman PAMEX J.R.D. TATA WAS AN company blossomed and Vapi, due in no - an international exhibition organised ACTIVE MEMBER OF small part to the work of the local Rotary by AIFMP like DRUPA at Germany. He has THE ROTARY CLUB OF Club, has been transformed into a major submitted papers on printing at various BOMBAY BETWEEN 1934 industrial centre. international fora. TO 1961 AND ALSO Amongst his many services to Rotary, He joined the Rotary Club of Bombay SERVED AS A DIRECTOR PRIP Rtn. Kalyan Banerjee has also been Hanging Garden in 1993 and was dedicatedly IN 1946-48. HE BECAME Director, Rotary International (1995-97), involved in RYE, senior citizen welfare, AN HONORARY MEMBER Trustee, The Rotary Foundation (2001- vocational service, medical and non-medical OF THE CLUB IN 1961. 05) and Trustee member, The Rotary service, and recognised as Best Rotarian and IT IS THANKS TO THE Foundation (2013-17). Best Director. MAGNANIMOUS GESTURE Over the last four decades, Kalyan has During his presidential year, the Club was OF J.R.D. TATA THAT served Rotary as District Governor, ranked second in per capita foundation OVER THE LAST SEVERAL President’s Representative, Committee giving (TRF) and third in annual fund- DECADES, THE ROTARY and Task Force Chair, Rotary Foundation raising. He was deeply involved in the polio CLUB OF BOMBAY HAS Trustee, and Director. He also has been eradication programme. He carried out PR HELD ITS WEEKLY LUNCH a Member of the International PolioPlus activity for a US$ 200 million thrust area fund Committee, heading up initiatives that have collection. He is a Major Donor level 2. He is MEETINGS AND EVENTS spurred Rotary’s polio eradication efforts in happily married to Rita and both are blessed AT THE TAJ MAHAL HOTEL India. with two daughters Manisha and Neha. AT CONCESSIONAL RATES.

DID YOU KNOW... PAUL P. HARRIS, A YOUNG ATTORNEY, CAME TO TO ORGANISE A MEN’S CLUB BASED ON AN IDEA CHICAGO, ILLINOIS IN 1896 TO ESTABLISH HIS THAT PAUL HAD BEEN CONTEMPLATING: THAT MEN CAREER AND FORTUNE. HE REALISED THERE WERE IN BUSINESS COULD BE AND SHOULD BE PERSONAL OTHERS LIKE HIMSELF, SEEKING CAMARADERIE AND FRIENDS. THE NAME ‘ROTARY’ WAS SUGGESTED BY A SENSE OF COMMUNITY. ON FEBRUARY 23, 1905, HARRIS BECAUSE THEY PLANNED TO MEET AT EACH HE AND THREE BUSINESS ACQUAINTANCES AGREED MEMBER’S PLACE OF BUSINESS IN ROTATION.

Early on, finding speakers was always difficult and Rotarians had to be exhorted to commit to a talk at least once in four years. In times of war, the times were addressed without encroaching upon the sphere of “politics”. Some of the subjects became valuable additions to the fund of material publicly available on them. For example: The Crisis of Democracy by Sir Jehangir Cowasjee, the Aboriginals in the Central Provinces by Dr. Verrier Elwin and What Central Asia Means to me by Mlle. Ella Maillart. #celebrating90amazingyears MARCH 19, 2019 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY 05 ‘WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO?’ POLICYMAKERS AND LEADERS MUST ASK THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT OF THEIR FUTURE. HUMAN KIND ITSELF, AS A SPECIES, MUST KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION Indian-American anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has lived in the US for 50 years while his research and teaching has revolved around India. Many of the Rotary Club of Bombay’s Rotarians knew Professor Arjun Appadurai says it is worth studying what people want him and so Arjun was honoured and is about here and now.” be about the next life, it might be about happy to address the Club last week. this life, it might not be about getting Any society big or small, rural or urban, richer – it might be about getting poorer, The Future as Cultural Fact, the topic is always worried about the future. Be getting rid of your possessions.” of his talk as well as the title of his it worry about the weather, children book, takes a broad, analytical look at or agriculture. He says, “And yet 90 per It is such situations that add to the the genealogies of the present era of cent of anthropology is about the past: rationale for studying this question and globalisation through essays on violence, people talk about memory, history, what its outcomes, says Arjun. “It affects policy. commodification, nationalism, terror they did, what their fathers did, what If one doesn’t know what people want, and materiality. India being at the heart their grandfathers used to do. It leaves at what kind of politics will one play? What of his work, Arjun offers first-hand least half of all human activity out of the kind of public policy will one create? research among urban slum dwellers field of attention, and that is the future. What kind of debates will one have? in Mumbai, in which he examines their That is shocking.” It is important, not only for scholarly struggle to achieve equity, recognition purposes, but also for purposes of “Let us talk about Hindu culture,” adds and self-governance in conditions of planning, politics and public life because Arjun. “What is the Hindu view of the extreme inequality. In his works on otherwise the future will always get future? Who knows! Why? But if you talk design, planning, finance and poverty, smuggled in when you are talking about to each other, you will find specific ideas Arjun embraces the “politics of hope” something else.” Arjun talked Rotarians about where you want to go, thoughts and lays the foundations for a revitalised, through this with the metaphor of a about tomorrow, about life, about the and urgent anthropology of the future. a cultural car. The way anthropology planet and these ideas may be partly operates it is by driving while looking As an anthropologist, Arjun is not religious in origin or professional, but only at the rear-view mirror. He asks, involved in the part of anthropology we have to ask. So, my book is premised “But what about the big windshield in which is involved with evolution, history, on what would happen to anthropology front from which we can see the road archaeology, monuments, stones, rock. if we took a single idea seriously: that ahead; where do we want to go to? Do He says, “That is archaeology, those are all societies have a picture of the future. we want to turn or do we want to stop? my colleagues. But, I work on living The anthropological twist is because That is absent because human beings are societies, like our society here and other not all those pictures are identical. If I only looking at the rear-view mirror. So, societies. So, I am in the social-cultural go to Indonesia, for example, and ask, we are missing a lot. It is not hard to fill branch of anthropology which is not what is your future? I may not get the that gap but it requires effort, training, about the long-term human evolution. It same answer as elsewhere. It may not

The first motto of Rotary International, approved in 1911, was from a speech by a Chicago Rotarian, Art Sheldon: ‘He Profits Most Who Serves Best’. At about the same time, Rtn. Ben Collins from the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, proposed: ‘Service, Not Self’. Variations of these were approved as official Rotary mottoes in 1950. In 1989, ‘Service Above Self’ was adopted as Rotary’s primary motto as it best exemplified the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service. #celebrating90amazingyears 06 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY ‘WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO?’

DID YOU KNOW... Rtn. Jimmy Pochkhanawalla with guest speaker Arjun Appadurai et al ERADICATING POLIO HAS BEEN A MISSION discipline and reading.” that is then leveraged up through derivative AND A LABOUR OF mechanisms into a huge global market which This led Arjun to bring up the importance LOVE. THE ROTARY is many times the size of the GDP, or many of forecasting, prediction and speculation CLUB OF BOMBAY HAS times the size of the markets of real goods and, also, imagination. Thus, there is a mix and services.” WORKED TIRELESSLY and how that mix works is different from AND UNCEASINGLY TO one society to another. Fear is also a factor What draws an anthropologist’s attention to ERADICATE POLIO IN that Arjun highlights as shaping people’s this is their cultural approach to risk. How INDIA. RCB REACHED experience and imagination which always has much risk can someone tolerate? Will it make OUT TO OTHER CLUBS to do with the future rather than the past. a difference whether they are in a city or AND TOGETHER SPREAD village? Will it will make a difference if they Arjun then showed how studying the future are Indian or Japanese? What is their risk OUT ACROSS THE from an anthropological perspective is level? What are they speculating? Why are they NATION TO IMMUNISE productive in understanding contemporary investing? Which things do they like to invest EVERY CHILD. finance as it affects all individuals in? Which things do they not like to invest in? irrespective of their economic backgrounds. Why do they go in to debt at all? What is the Derivatives form a major part of this. Huge promise about “later” which affects “the now”? markets, where all are involved due to some or the other kind of debt, can cause very After shooting off so many questions to high level debt: corporate debt, national ponder upon, Arjun concluded his comments debt, car debt, housing debt, medical debt. by saying, “Studying the future from an “In the US,” says Arjun, “everybody is in 110 anthropological point of view offers both per cent debt for a hundred things. Any a path to understand ourselves, but also to crucial good in their life be it education, understand things which we think are totally health or housing, whether theirs or their technical subjects, like the derivative market. parents, is based on high leverage; 10 per It seems like an unidentified flying object cent down payment, rest borrowed. Our debt which nobody can understand but the truth as common people is the basis for financial is that it is related to how different groups markets. So that is where the derivative trend in a society try to bring future values into gets its material to trade; it is not through the present and that makes it a subject of printing money – it is from ordinary debt but interest to people like me!”

Rotary’s original Constitution in 1906 had three Objects: promotion of business interests, promotion of good fellowship and the advancement of the best interests of the community. By 1910, Rotary had five Objects and by 1915, there were six. In 1918, the Objects were reduced to four. Four years later they had grown to six and were revised again in 1927. Finally, at the 1935 Mexico City Convention, the six were restated and reduced to four. The last major change came in 1951 when a single Object came into being with “ideal of service” being the key phrase. #celebrating90amazingyears MARCH 19, 2019 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY 07 Continued from Page 3 utmost freedom of expression, lake, sea, or ocean, and all administrative matters, (BASES FOR A LASTING PEACE discussion, association and the ample spaces of this, his but in no others, it is an BY H.G. WELLS) worship. world. obvious practical necessity for men to relinquish the 6. Right to Work 9. Personal Liberty ...and equally entitled to the free play of certain of these respect of their fellow-men. Subject to the needs of Unless a man is declared by a fundamental rights (in, for the community, a man competent authority to be a example, such conventional 2. Protection of Minors may engage in any lawful danger to himself or to others matters as the rule of the The natural and rightful occupation, earning such through mental abnormality, road or the protection of guardians of those who are pay as the contribution a declaration which must be money from forgery, and not of an age to protect that his work makes to the confirmed within seven days in such administrative themselves are their parents. welfare of the community and thereafter reviewed at matters as town and country In default of such parental may justify. He is entitled least annually, he shall not be planning or public hygiene). protection in whole or in part, to paid employment and to restrained for more than 24 But no law, conventional the community, having due make suggestions as to the hours without being charged or administrative, shall regard to the family traditions kind of employment which with a definite offense, nor be binding on any man of the child, shall accept or he considers himself able to imprisoned for more than or on any section of the provide alternative guardians. perform. Work for the sole three months without a trial. community, unless it has object of profit-making shall At a reasonable time before 3. Duty to the Community been made openly with the not be a lawful occupation. his trial, he shall be furnished active or tacit acquiescence It is the duty of every man not with a copy of the evidence 7. Right in Personal Property of every adult citizen only to respect but to uphold which it is proposed to use concerned, given either and to advance the rights of In the enjoyment of his against him. At the end of the by direct majority vote of all other men throughout personal property, lawfully three-month period, if he has the community affected the world. Furthermore, it is possessed, a man is entitled not been tried and sentenced or by majority vote of its his duty to contribute such to protection from public or by due process of law, he shall representatives publicly service to the community as private violence, deprivation, be acquitted and released. No elected. These representatives will insure the performance compulsion, intimidation. man shall be charged more shall be ultimately responsible of those necessary tasks for 8. Freedom of Movement than once with the same for all by-laws and for detailed which the incentives which offense. interpretations made in the will operate in a free society A man may move freely about 10. Freedom from Violence executions of the law. do not provide. the world at his own expense. His private dwelling, however, No man shall be subjected In matters of cooperative 4. Right to Knowledge and any reasonably limited to any sort of mutilation and collective action, man It is the duty of the enclosure of which he is the except with his own deliberate must abide by the majority community to equip occupant, may be entered consent, freely given, nor to decisions ascertained by every man with sufficient only with his consent or by forcible handling, except in electoral methods which education to enable him to a legally qualified person restraint of his own violence, give effective expression be as useful and interested empowered with a warrant not to torture, beating, or any to individual choice. All a citizen as his capacity as the law may direct, so other physical ill treatment. legislation must be subject allows. Furthermore, it is long as by his movement he He shall not be subjected to repeal. No treaties or the duty of the community does not intrude upon the to mental distress, or to contracts shall be made to render all knowledge private domain of any other imprisonment in infected, secretly in the name of the available to him and such citizen, harm, or disfigure or verminous, or otherwise community. The fount of special education as will give encumber what is not his, unsanitary quarters, or to legislation in a free world is him equality of opportunity interfere with or endanger be put into the company of the whole people, and since for the development of his its proper use, or seriously verminous or infected people. life flows on constantly to new distinctive gifts in the service impair the happiness of citizens, no generation can, in 11. Right of Lawmaking of mankind. others, he shall have the right whole or in part, surrender or to come and go wherever he Rights embodied in this delegate this legislative power 5. Freedom of Thought and chooses, by land, air, or water Declaration are fundamental which is inalienably inherent Worship over any kind of country, and inalienable. In in mankind. Every man has a right to the mountain, moorland, river, conventional and in

The first Rotary Club banner (from Houston Space Center) to orbit the moon was carried by astronaut Frank Borman, a member of that Club, in 1968. Other interesting sightings of the Rotary flag: • Over the South Pole in 1929 and the North Pole four years later, hoisted by Admiral Richard Byrd. • On a record-setting balloon ascent to 55,577 feet in 1932 by Professor Auguste Picard. • Carried 6,254 feet beneath earth’s surface a year later, for a meeting held by the Rotary Club of Houghton, Michigan, at the bottom of the Quincy Copper Mine. #celebrating90amazingyears 08 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY Water for Malabar Hill PO to reach and benefit many RCB inaugurates safe drinking water facility at Malabar Hill Post Office DONATIONS RECEIVED The Water Resources Committee of the Rotary TOTALLING Club of Bombay has installed a UV-based ` 15,43,250 safe drinking water plant at the Malabar Hill Rtn. Akhil Sanghi Post Office. Rtn. Rhea Bhumgara The equipment was Mr. Vijay Maniar supplied by Eureka Mr. Harish Agarwal Forbes Limited and is Mr. Pinakirajan Mishra inclusive of a one-year Mr. Sagar Shah warranty and two-year maintenance. The Rtn. Jaidev Merchant installation will benefit Rtn. (Dr.) Sam Mahaluxmivala over a hundred postal Mr. Rahul Patni employees, all BEST staff Mr. Prashant Khatore from the depot across the road, as well as the Mr. Abhaya Agarwal public visiting Hanging Mr. Rakesh Jariwala Gardens. Mr. Burgess Cooper Workers and staff at the Mr. Sudhir Kapadia Post Office welcomed Mr. Sriram Shrinivasan this initiative, especially, considering that Mr. Rajiv Bhatt summer is around the Rtn. (Dr.) Phiroze Soonawala corner and this facility Vyoman Tradelink India Pvt.Ltd. means they will have Rtn. Dinesh Lal access to cool and clean, drinking water. The Mr. Ajitabh Sarin plant was inaugurated Rtn. Mayank Kummar by President Vijay Jatia Mr. Rohit Mathur on March 11, 2019. Mr. Sunil Verma

Throughout the wide world of Rotary, many members share similar hobbies, recreational activities and avocations. Rotarians with common interests are encouraged to establish groups called World Fellowship Activities. Some popular World Fellowship Activities are flying, amateur radio, stamp collecting, yachting, skiing, tennis and travel. The more unusual ones are genealogy, recreational vehicles, tree planting, home exchange and roaming. #celebrating90amazingyears MARCH 19, 2019 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY 09 March 20: In-camera event hosted by Rtn. Nandan and Rtn. All Directors Ptn. Mridula Maluste at their and Committee residence. Rtn. Anil Harish will talk Chairpersons about creating a will. From 7 pm are requested to onwards. send their project March 21: Holi celebration hosted write ups with high by Rtn. Naresh Jain and Rtn. Mohit resolution pictures Jain at their residence. to Rtn. Satyan Israni March 24: RCB’s Annual Tennis for publishing in Tournament will be held at the MSLTA, 7:30 am onwards. the Gateway at the following email id: March 26: Guest speaker rotary.satyanisrani Dr. Deepak Apte on the need to @gmail.com ROTARIANS MAKING WAVES protect the environment The Rotary Club of Bombay is proud of former IMC President Rtn. Nanik Rupani for being appointed “Namami Gange” for his contribution towards the Clean Ganga Fund. Nanik handed over a cheque of Rs 25 lakh to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari.

MENU (PAN ASIAN) March 26, 2019 SOUP Spring vegetable broth with thyme, Assorted bread rolls & butter SALAD BAR Greek salad, Egg salad, Corn & pasta with Thousand Island dressing VEGETARIAN MAIN COURSE Parmigiano-crusted macaroni with broccoli and cauliflower florets, Stuffed pepper with spicy almond sauce, Grilled vegetables with pesto, Tomato tarte tatin The Rotary Club of Bombay congratulates PP. Rtn. Shailesh Haribhakti on being appointed NON VEGETARIAN MAIN COURSE Chairman of Blue Star. Grilled chicken with jus and root vegetables on the side, Herb crusted fish on a bed of ratatouille with red pepper coulis DESSERTS Nutty honey crunch & Belgium chocolate ice-cream, Caramel custard

An Honorary membership is the highest distinction a Rotary Club can confer and is exercised to recognise an individual’s unusual service and contribution to Rotary and society. Some of Rotary’s distinguished Honorary members include: King Gustaf of Sweden, King George VI of England, King Badouin of Belgium, King Hassan III of Morocco, Sir Winston Churchill, humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, Charles Lindberg, composer Jean Sibelius, explorer Sir Edmund Hillary, Thor Heyerdahl, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Bob Hope and Margaret Thatcher. #celebrating90amazingyears 10 THE BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY Next Week’s Speaker conservation action and advocacy. TRUSTEES 2018 - 2019 He established a full-fledged Marine Dr. Rahim Muljiani Dr Adi Dastur DR. DEEPAK APTE Conservation Programme in BNHS, Arvind Jolly Arun Sanghi Dr. Deepak Apte apart from various conservation OFFICE BEARERS 2018 - 19 will receive the initiatives in terrestrial habitats President Vijay Jatia Taru Lalvani across India. President Elect Preeti Mehta Environmental Dr. Apte will now be responsible President Nominee Framroze Mehta Protection Award for managing the overall working IPP Ramesh Narayan at the Tuesday of BNHS, including its future Hon. Secretary Rekha Tanna meeting of March course of action, based on in- 26. He will speak on Jt. Honorary Secretary Bimal Mehta house strategic initiatives. He aims Hon. 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